Suspender-slide



Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

INVENTOR TORNEY.

CARL E. PETERSON, .orivionrcnaiannw JERSEY.

SUSPENDER-SLIDE.

- Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented Feb. 10, 1920.

Application filed May 29, 1919. Serial No. 300,603.

To all whom it may concern.

Beit known that I, CARL E. Pn'rEnsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Montclair, county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented-certain new and useful Improvements in Suspender- Slides, of which the following is a specification. 7 p w This invention relates to an improved suspender slide and is adapted for holding in adjusted positions the strips or sheets of the suspender that go through the slide, and is particularly adapted for use with overalls and the like.

This slide is used in lieu of a buckle, and it has been the practice to make such slides of wire of various constructions, the majority of the constructions having a loose end of the wire, or having projecting uncovered ends of the wire, which not only form means for cutting or tearing the fingers, but tend to become loosened.

My nnproved slide is formed in a manner to adapt it to tightly bind the strands of the suspender that pass through it against accidental movement, but permits a quick and positive adjustment of the slide when it is desired to lengthen or shorten the susponder.

The invention is further designed to provide a slide of this kind which will not catch on the suspender and which has its parts that projectprovided with rounded outside of Fig. 2.

I may use wire of different and various cross-sectional forms, but I prefer to use square wire, the wire being substantially straight for a portion of its length to form a central strand 10, and being bent at the opposite ends of the central strand 10 in opposite directions to form the main end strands 11 and 12, these again being bent parallel with the central strand 10 to form the top strand 13 and the bottom strand 14, these being substantially parallel with the central strand length.

' The top and bottom bent to'form the supplemental end strands strands 13 and 14' and of approximately the same 15 and 16, respectively, these ending in their respective loops 17 and 18 which embrace the central strand 10 adjacent to its juncture with the main end strands 11 and 12. The loops 17 and 18are substantially parallel with the end strands of the slide and are 7 7 The slide is usually employed to hold the strips in adjusted relations, and in the form shown the suspender strip is fastened by the loop 20 to the central strand and then passes down and is doubled on itself at 21, the part .21 beingused to hold, in common practice,

a catch to go over a button on the garment,

although what is suspended from the loop 21 is immaterial. The suspender then passes,

as at 22, between the part 20 and the slide, 7

then up around the outside of the loop 20, as at 23, and then behind the top strand, as at 24-, and in this way is given enough sinuosity of form to enable it to be tightly held by the slide when tension is appiiedon the two ends of the strap or suspender.

The square wire is'p'referable because it provides a better binding surface in .its engagement with the fabric or material on whlch the sllde is used, althoughit will be understood that I do not wish to be limited to wire square 1n cross-section in manufac-I turing this slide.

The central strand 10 and the top and relative planes, but I prefer to make them as shown in Fig. 3, in which the central strand 10 is slightly out of line with the top" and bottom strands, thus providing more positive binding of the suspender strap, due to the increased bent or sinuous form into which it 1s forced when in the slide.

It will be evident from an inspection of the. drawing that in general the formation of the slide is that of a somewhat flattened S with the two ends twisted in engagement ward the same side of the centralstrand, in

the drawing they being shown inclined toward the rear so that the loops 17 and 18 95 7 bottom strands 13 and 14 can be in different are bent forward and thus pass around the central strand. The loops act to guide the suspender freely through the slide Whenthe slide is to be moved, as the friction on the sides when the strand is loosened will not 'retard the movement of the slide materially and it keeps thesuspender and the slide in alinement.

I claim:

A slide comprising a single Wire forming a central strand which extends at its ends in opposite directions to form main end strands,

and then back in opposite directionsto form top and bottom strands, the Wire extending from the top and bottom strands toward the 15 a central strand to form supplemental end strands substantially in line With the main end strands, the ends of the supplemental end strands being slightly out of line with said ends and formed into coils embracing 20 said central strand and leaving no ends of the Wire exposed. a v

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereto set my hand, this 28th day of May, 1919. r T

i CARL PETERSON. 

